Ali Servet Donmez

I thrive on learning different technologies and enjoy owning projects end-to-end!

I started writing code professionally in 2008 and have since worked across the full stack, building web and iOS applications, internal tools, and cloud services. Earlier in my career, I took a lead developer role, managing a tech team and delivering enterprise projects.

These days, I use AI extensively in my work and write mostly JavaScript/TypeScript. Over the years, I have worked in many domains — programming enterprise B2B applications, building AI services & features, implementing multi-region data residency strategies, evolving infrastructure with IaC, ensuring security compliance, and applying CI/CD.

Personal

Languages

Fluent in English, Italian, and Turkish

Nationalities

Turkish/Italian

Skills

Current

Programming	JavaScript/TypeScript
Scripting	Bash • Python • Ruby
Frameworks & Libs	Node.js • Express.js • React • AWS CDK
Data Storage	MySQL • Redis • Elasticsearch
Infrastructure (AWS)	ECS • CloudFormation • S3 • Lambda • Lambda@Edge • API Gateway • CloudFront • RDS • OpenSearch • EFS • Secrets Manager • KMS • Route53 • ALB • & more

Past

C# • Objective-C • jQuery • Sass • CoffeeScript • iOS • ASP.NET MVC • Heroku • PostgreSQL • SQLite • DynamoDB

More

REST APIs • Docker • Git • GitHub • HTML • CSS • Tailwind CSS

Experience

2017–2025

Senior developer & senior cloud infrastructure engineer
Balsamiq (Remote)

I joined Balsamiq, a widely-used wireframing software company, to take over responsibility for various existing custom internal tools and security & compliance initiatives.

My most notable contributions over the years include:

Building AI services via third-party LLM providers
Architecting and developing custom internal tools (e.g., payment & subscription management via Stripe, e-commerce, project management)
Managing Elasticsearch clusters for log management of production apps
Leading cloud infrastructure modernization with AWS CDK
Performing GDPR compliance audits
Managing security compliance and bug bounty programs (SOC2/Vanta, Bugcrowd, HackerOne)
Implementing multi-region data residency for customer data
Integrating observability and analytics tools (PostHog, Klaviyo)
Maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions across 15+ repositories

2008–2017

Lead developer
WEDO (Cesena, Italy)

At WEDO, I had significant opportunities to grow into a lead developer (full-stack + iOS) of a mobile and web application team, advise developers from other teams, interact with senior management, and work closely with clients such as Bocconi and CINECA.

2008

UniCredit (Milan, Italy)

During my internship at UniCredit Global Information Services (UGIS), the IT services provider for one of Europe’s largest banks, I visited and analyzed the infrastructure of their data center and prepared a report of my findings.

Education

2009

Computer Science, Bachelor
University of Bologna (Italy)

More

2005–2008

Board member and sysadmin of university students' association

2005–Present

Founder and admin of GNU Turkish translation team